Paint frames in video layers

You can edit or paint on individual video
frames to create an animation, add content, or to remove unwanted
details. In addition to using any brush tool, you can paint using
the Clone Stamp, Pattern Stamp, Healing Brush, or Spot Healing Brush.
You can also edit video frames using the Patch tool.

Note:

Painting
(or using any other tool) on video frames is often called rotoscoping; although
traditionally, rotoscoping involves the frame‑by‑frame tracing of
live action images for use in animation.

(Optional) If you want your edits to be on a separate
layer, choose Layers > Video Layers > New
Blank Video Layer.

Select the brush tool that you want to use and apply
your edits to the frame.

Painting on a video layer is nondestructive. To discard
the altered pixels on a specific frame or video layer, choose the
Restore Frame or Restore All Frames command. To toggle on and off
the visibility of altered video layers, choose the Hide Altered
Video command (or click the eyeball next to the altered video track in
the timeline).

Cloning content in video and animation
frames

In Photoshop Extended CS5
or Photoshop CS6, you can use the Clone Stamp and Healing Brush
tools to retouch or duplicate objects in video or animation frames. Use
the Clone Stamp to sample content from one part of
a frame (the source) and paint it over another part
of the same or different frame (the target). You can
also use a separate document as the sampling source, instead of
a frame. The Healing Brush includes options for blending the sampled
content with the target frame.

Note:

You can also clone content
with the Spot Healing Brush and the Patch tools. However, the Clone
Stamp and the Healing Brush tools let you store up to five samples
in the Clone Source panel, and set overlay, scaling, and frame offset
options.

After you sample content from a frame and paint
with it, and then move to another frame, the source frame changes
relative to the frame you initially sampled from. You can lock in
the source frame you first sampled, or enter a frame offset value
to change the source to a different frame, relative to the frame you
first sampled.

Clone video or animation content

Select the Clone Stamp tool or
Healing Brush tool , and
then set the tool options you want.

Do one of the following:

Select a video layer in the Layers panel,
Animation panel (Photoshop Extended CS5), or Timeline panel (CS6),
and then move the current-time indicator to the frame you want to
sample.

Open the image you want to sample.

Position the pointer in an open image or frame, and Alt-click
(Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) to set the sampling
point.

To set additional sampling points, click each clone source
button in
the Clone Source panel.

Select the target video layer and move the current-time
indicator to the frame you want to paint.

If you want to paint on a separate layer,
you can add a blank video layer. Make sure you choose the appropriate
Sample option to clone content onto the blank video layer.

If you have set multiple sampling points, select the
source you want to use in the Clone Source panel.

Do any of the following in the Clone Source panel:

To scale or rotate the source that you’re cloning, enter a value for W (width) or H (height), or the rotation in degrees .

To show an overlay of the source that you’re cloning, select Show Overlay and specify the overlay options. (The Clipped option restricts the overlay to the brush size. Deselect this option to overlay the entire source image).

Painting on a video layer is nondestructive. You can choose
the Restore Frame or Restore All Frames command to discard the altered
pixels on a specific frame or video layer.

Change frame offset for cloning
or healing

In the Clone Source panel:

To always paint using the same frame you
initially sampled from, select Lock Frame.

To paint using a frame relative to the frame you
initially sampled from, enter the number of frames in the Frame
Offset box. If the frame you want to use is after the frame you
initially sampled, enter a positive value. If the frame you want
to use is before the frame you initially sampled, enter a negative
value.

Managing color in video layers

In Photoshop Extended CS5 and Photoshop CS6, you can
paint on video layers using tools such as the brush tool or the
clone stamp tool. If no color profile is assigned to the video layer,
these pixel edits are stored using the document file’s color space,
and the video footage itself is left unchanged. If the color space
of the imported footage is different from the color space of your
Photoshop document, you may need to make adjustments. For example,
a standard definition video movie may be in SDTV 601 NTSC, while
the Photoshop document is in Adobe RGB. Your
final exported video or document might not have the colors you expect
due to the color space mismatch.

Before investing a lot of time painting or editing
video layers, test your complete workflow to understand your color
management needs and find the approach that works best for your
workflow.

Often, you can solve a mismatch by assigning a color profile
to the document that corresponds to the imported footage, and leaving
the video layer unmanaged. For example, with standard definition
video, you can leave the video layer unmanaged and assign the document
the SDTV (Rec. 601 NTSC) color profile. In this case, the imported
frame pixels are stored directly in the video layer without color
conversion.

Conversely,
you can assign the document’s color profile to the video layer using the
Convert Edited Frame Content option (Layers > Video
Layers > Interpret Footage). This option converts the
pixel edits to the document’s color space, but does not convert
the colors of the video frames.

The Convert To Profile command (Edit >
Convert To Profile) also converts all pixel edits to the document’s
color space. However, using the Assign Profile command (Edit >
Assign Profile) does not convert the pixel edits to a video layer.
Use the Assign Profile command with care, especially when you’ve
painted on or edited video frames. If the video layer has a color
profile, applying the Assign Profile command to the document may
cause a color space mismatch between the pixel edits and the imported
frames.